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- English
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About This Book
The Voice of a People: Speeches from Black America is a collection of speeches from some of the leading African American intellectuals, artists, activists, and organizers of the past three centuries.
While many of their names?such as Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Frederick Douglass?will be familiar to most readers, some?such as Jermain Wesley Loguen, Randall Albert Carter, and Samuel H. Davis?are less well known, but no less important to the history of Black America.
The individuals whose voices make up this collection come from a range of professional and personal backgrounds. Many of them were born into slavery. Some escaped. Some were poets, preachers, ministers, and bishops. Some were educators, activists, academics, abolitionists, and suffragists. All of them, despite their differences, contributed to the vibrant, invaluable history of a people who first built this nation before fighting to reclaim its soul for future generations.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Note from the Publisher
- Contents
- Jupiter Hammon, âAn Address to the Negroes in the State of New Yorkâ
- Maria W. Stewart, âWhy Sit Ye Here and Dieâ
- Maria W. Stewart, âEducation for African American Womenâ
- Maria W. Stewart, âAn Address at the African Masonic Hallâ
- Theodore S. Wright, âPrejudice Against the Colored Manâ
- Samuel H. Davis, âWe Must Assert Our Rightful Claims and Plead Our Own Causeâ
- Henry Highland Garnet, âAn Address to the Slaves of the United Statesâ
- Frederick Douglass, âMy Slave Experience in Marylandâ
- Frederick Douglass, âOn Woman Suffrageâ
- Lucy Stanton, âA Plea for the Oppressedâ
- Rev. Jermain Wesley Lougen, âI Wonât Obey the Fugitive Slave Lawâ
- Sojourner Truth, âArânt I a Woman?â
- Frederick Douglass, âWhat, To the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?â
- Frederick Douglass, âIf There is No Struggle, There is No Progressâ
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, âLiberty for Slavesâ
- Frederick Douglass, âThe Mission of the Warâ
- Frederick Douglass, âWhat Do Black Men Wantâ
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, âWe Are All Bound Up Togetherâ
- Frederick Douglass, âAppeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrageâ
- Henry McNeal Turner, âI Claim the Rights of a Manâ
- Ferdinand L. Barnett, âRace Unity,â
- Lucy E. Parsons, âI Am An Anarchistâ
- Ida B. Wells, âLynch Law in All Its Phasesâ
- Anna Julia Cooper, âWomenâs Cause is One and Universalâ
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, âWomanâs Political Futureâ
- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, âAddress to the First National Conference of Colored Womenâ
- Booker T. Washington, âDemocracy and Educationâ
- Mary Church Terrell, âIn Union There is Strengthâ
- Alexander Crummell, âThe Attitude of the American Mind Toward the Negro Intellectâ
- Rev. Francis J. Grimke, âThe Negro Will Never Acquiesceâ
- Ida B. Wells, âThe Progress of Colored Womenâ
- Lucy Craft Laney, âThe Burden of the Educated Colored Womanâ
- Ida B. Wells, âLynch Law in Americaâ
- W.E.B. Du Bois, âTo the Nations of the Worldâ
- Mary Church Terrell, âWhat it Means to Be Colored in the Capital of the U.S.â
- Ida B. Wells, âLynching, Our National Crimeâ
- William Pickens, âThe Kind of Democracy the Negro Expectsâ
- Archibald Grimke, âThe Shame of America, Or the Negroâs Case Against the Republicâ
- James Weldon Johnson, âOur Democracy and the Ballotâ
- Bishop Randall Albert Carter, âWhence and Whiterâ
- Profile of the Speakers
- A Note About the Book
- A Note from the Publisher